Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-09-22
A MAN OF MAGIC.
INFORMATION FOR THOSE WISHING
TO LEARN SLElGHT OF HAND.

Reporters Chat with y Modern NIaEi-
clan-outnt Needed by nm Amateur
New Tricks
Militiaman John 4. Schultz, the genial
conjurer OF the Eighth regiment, had Just
produced the pleasing illusion that the re-
porter's hat was n savings bank by aplar-
entity abStracting from the lining several
crisp bank notes, half n dozen $5 gold
pieces, and quantity of silver dimes and
quarters, when the reporter seized the OPP
portunity and fired questions straight at
him without any delay whatever.
well" said Militiaman Schultz, " it'll
n smile, ''aS magicians are good people to
have around, and as the more good people
there are around in the world the better
it will become, don't mind giving YOU
the secret that will increase our number
The first tip is to go straight To some good
magician and take lessons in the art direct
from him. Books of instructions are use
ful only after the first principles of the
art are mastered.
''When you can palm and pass things
so that you can fool all the smart small
boy and all the smarter grown up folks In
your house and in the family next door
you're ready 10 go ahead in your career
rs professional dcceiver of your fellow
man. The next step in that cS reer is to
get magical apparatus That's the way
globes Of gold fishes and dishes II blazing
oil and other startling thing are pro.
duccd from empty pocket handkerchiefs.
1t was 10y mechanical devices that Robert
Heller was able to take out of mans hat
cart load of fruit jars, piles OF tea
caddies, innumerablo lighted Chinese
lanterns, about a ton of rubber balls and
wooden blocks, wardrobe of clothes, n
pyramid Of dishes, and finally the bright
little girl who used to run down laughing
TO n seat among the spectators. When IL
comes TO the apparatus you can go il
economically, or you can rcvel in the
luNuriant expenditure of n prolific income.
Magical outfits range in cost all the way
from 800 up into the thousands. 4 good
amateur, unless he wants to confino him
self exclusively TO card tricks, can't pos
sibly get along in parlor entertainment
without center table. These range in
cost from about S25 to $500. according to
finish and the number of traps and things
intended to produce the startling effects
that demonstrate to your smart spectator
that he isn't rs smart rs he thinks he Is.
OTHER NEEDED ARTICLES.
"After you get your table the rest OF
your outlay is for mechanical tricks, the
hrst thing, OF course, to procure being
your conjurer's wand and trick tube
pistol, into which you can load things
that you have smashed TO flinders and
want 10 reproduce whole. There are sew
eral kinds of wands. One sort will foat
In the air, another you can make disap-
pear down your throat, and another will
fish silver half dollars from the empty air
Tor you. Then you will want glass boxes
that look empty until you want them 10
be full OF curious things; card cases for
making cards disappear, and to cut uu
other queer antics with; the inexhaustible
bottle, time honored chestnut OF a trick,
but perennially interesting TO the chill
dren-magic bird cages, money chests.
and lots OF other paraphernalia. In all
there arc over 200 pieces of apparatus for
standard tricks, from the simple tiny rub
Der bottle that hobs up persistently until
the conJurer tells il TO lie down, 10 the ID
paratus that will enable you to safely cut
of the head Of your best friend among
the spectators.
Militiaman Schultz stopped for breath
when he had piled all this mystic lore
upon the reporters head, and gave the
scribe chance 10 talk on his own account.
Tremendously the reporter said, ''and
what did you say it would cost TO learn il
nlii'i
II didn't say yet, retorted the militia
man, who can do over 300 strange. be-
wildering and incomprehcnsible deeds OF
diablerie-"1 didn't say yet, but I'm
going to tell you now. You or anybody
else can learn 10 become magician OF
varying excellence by paying from $50 10
$500 10 any one Of the pupils whom Herr
man or Heller has kindly taught For
SO you can learn n select few good tricks
but for $500 probably. or 5000 nj the out
side, you can get training that will enable
you TO do everything that anybody who
doesn't want the earth would care TO per.
form.
'Ihe conjurer must be good talker
and a funny one at that. BY saying
funny things and being perfectly cool al
all times he can travel smoothly nlona
with every trick. II is necessary in q
great many good tricks 10 talk AWAY nj
the spectators TO give them the impression
thet you are explaining what you are
going 10 do, when in reality you only
want 20 mislead them The man who
taSls wen and entertainingly can accom-
plish his purpose readily. Who ever saw
Heller, for instance, was delighted rs
much by his bright talk almost as bv tho
tricks he did. II u trick is successfully
performed the wise coniurcr wiz not rc
peat u again that night. The wise con
juror will also keep his spectators som,
distance from his coniuring tables. and
above NIL, " nc plumbers he will neveI
allow the blunder TO confuse him. bul
will cleverly pretend that IL was nm efTect
that he purposely intended 10 produce
Ine con1urer can never afford to he in too
much Of hurry either. He wants 10 d,
decd sure TINT hc is going ahead with Ger
tainty Magic, in short, IS one OF thos.
things in which you have 70 haster
slowly"
= FEW SEw TRICKS.
NIiiitiaman Schultz paused again. and
borrowing tho reporters lead peucil
kindly pulled two Reina Victoria CIGAR
ont NJ the end of &c. md presenting one Il
the writer, lit the other himself Thcr
no pulled yards Of tape cut u the sharp
oned end Of the pencil and q poker decl
ont of the side and sat down laughing.
liy the way. the reporter asked ,yher
the pencil was returned uniuiured
WHAT s new BOO magic, anyhow
This, replied the mystic subordinate
81 Col Scott There wns q buzzinu SCUM,
in the magicians scarf. and the pol,
monkey head chartered its teeth an,
rolled its diamond eyes nc the reporter n
q most remarkable manner.
Another new trick continued IN,
miiiiamun. "is what is called the mos
mcrIzcl skull 10 is an imitation ekull
That when set upon n pane ~ ordinar,
window glass placed upon the tops nf tw,
ordinary chairs, VIII move IFS hcnd about
following the performers movement